"Ode to Strike Force Epsilon"
A Sonnet by Furry Animal

As a wayward young Hero but newly empowered
I missioned with many smiting villain and coward
And the quest to make fifty so loomingly towered
That my valiant heart courted despair

I traversed the server maps zone after zone
Fought demons and gangsters and monsters of stone
And while teaming with others yet still felt alone
It was nearly more than I could bear

Then one evening while gaming (and soloing too)
Feeling downhearted, disenchanted and blue
I thought to myself “Hey! This sucks! I am through!
There has got to be more life out there!

I was invited that evening to SFE on Protector
I got Furry to fifty, and now I’m a Director

"Friend"
by Miss Phoenix

Friend … such a simple little word! It is spoken daily to millions of people all around the world in many different languages, but do we really understand the true meaning of the word?
Some people think that a friend is just someone that u can laugh with and have fun with every once in a while, but i know that friends are much more than that! Friends are the people that touch your heart, the ones u can spend hours and hours with doing nothing at all and feel like u just had the best time of your life. Real friends are the people u can share all your secrets with, cry with, laugh with...share your hopes and dreams with. Friends do not judge u or want to change u; they simply accept u exactly the way u are... when they look at u they see a wonderful person, despite your faults, a person they truly enjoy spending time with.
Friendship is one of the most beautiful and precious things in the world, something no one should ever have to live without, and i thank god every day for having u as my closest and dearest friend. Thank u for sharing all the little things in life with me, for all of the memories...the laughter and smiles, and yes, even for the tears. But, most importantly dear friend, thank u for your love.

"Where Would You Be?"
by Miss Phoenix

WHERE WOULD YOU BE:
IF - YOU HAD ALL THE MONEY YOUR HEART DESIRES?
IF - YOU HAD NO WORRIES?
IF - YOU CAME HOME AND THE FINEST MEAL IS AWAITING YOU?
IF - YOUR BATHWATER HAD BEEN RUN?
IF - YOU HAD THE PERFECT KIDS?
IF - YOUR PARTNER WAS AWAITING YOU, WITH OPEN ARMS AND KISSES?

SO, WHERE WOULD YOU BE?

HELLOOooo!!!!!!!!!

YOU'D BE IN THE WRONG F&*#ING HOUSE!

"ZW"
by Tattooed Wolf

the moist cold earth grips
darkness prevades eternity
decay moves on unsteady legs
the hunger is unceaseing
cold unseeing eyes
rotted hands grasp greedily
rare warmth from victums rent
minions mock as life drains

"I Could"
by the Daper Demon

I could...

I could be anything...
I could be nothing...
I could choose to live...
I could choose to die...
I could love...
I could hate...
I could sing...
I could cry...
I could create life…
I could take life…
I am the same as you…

I am human…

"Ode to the Villain"
by Buck Naked

Without Villians you see,
A hero I could not be.

To that end let me say,
If it is fighting PVP or the Crey,
let there be no doubt,
a Hero shall be about.

So rise and come forth to do your Villianous deeds,
Just try to come to my city and plant your evil seeds.

Certainly justice will come to pass,
because Buck Naked will be kickin' your ass.

"Untitled"
by Gilight

There once was a hero named Gilight
whos ass was always kicked in a fight
then one day he woke up in dismay and said
Norrin is sleeping with my wife !

"Sewer's Shadow"
a Haiku poem by Stanupa

I think that is him
Sewer's Shadow alrighty
He is a genius!

"In My Day's"
by Brehwa

In my day's of darkness , I thought i died.
In my day's of lightness , My brain was fryed.
In my day's of darkness , I was all alone.
In my day's of lightness , I left from home.
But in the end
As you see
Happiness looked the other way instead of heading for me.

"BOMBYX"
an acrostic poem by Voice Box

Always spinning your coccoon
Never stop to sleep
Sending out a million signals
Words that taste like pheramones
Everything just falls to pieces
Reptiles in the gasoline

Making life in small explosions
Egoes fuel the man machine

The lonely soldier standing true
this day would be his last
For blade-like blow the winds of change
of sickly chlorine gas

A cause, a meaning lost to him
Those borne simply to fight
To us such creatures had no names
Were instruments of spite

Those creatures with their rubber faces
Their grated mouths and round glass eyes
Those that were kept voiceless
By green gas and pale white lies

By lies that kept them in the trench
By lies that let them bleed
By lies that left them nameless
Such lies refused their creed

Without a cause they charge
And without a meaning fall
And silhouettes of dancing men
Through emerald haze must crawl

Some might say that hell is red
Or black obsidian, keen
But those who saw know the color dead
Is but the maelstrom green

"Night Defied"
by Helix Nek

The Moon casts shadows
Lying to the mind
Fears unlocked
in a frightful ride
The truth is lost
for what fears hide
the truth and beauty
Night Defied

"Untitled"
by Rast

The stillness of the earth
The warmth of promise in the air
A rosy hue accross the sea
The trembling of the shadows

A silhouette of earthly things
Shadow gives way to form
The darkness now forced to retreat
Beholds the light of dawn

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

The dew that greets the morning sun
bears tidings of before
The chill of night now told in tales
As some forgotton lore

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

The vole, of rice he makes his meal
But to the fox he'll fall
The fox will be by tiger claimed
But man will conquer all

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

Heavens and earth, divided up
By lines drawn in the sand
And claim be writ with steel and blood
All by the will of man

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

Though blood be spilled and souls erased
Like shadows they are gone
They fear not a forgotton fate
Their names shall carry on

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

The lines may change as time may pass
The dance remains the same
By steel what man cannot make his
By wind and fire he'll claim

As past the mountains, standing tall
The last of daylight fades
The last of man shall leave this earth
No tounge to bear his name

Ere coming sun or ending day
As empires rise and fall
The paths we tread be tread again
As they were tread before

In mountain, valley, hill and plain
The shadows find rebirth
No trace of that before remains
But stillness of the earth